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600 Six Hundred Years with the Mackaness Family in Northamptonshire
157j1620Northampton U.K.: A. J. Mackaness Limited. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "The chief concern of this volume is to follow the fourteen generations o leading to Alfred Mackaness and his settlement at Little Billing in 1922 and to trace the subsequent fortunes of his own family. Brief genealogical details of other brances in this country and abroad have been included where verification has been possible. In addition to checking collating and elaborating the findings of earlier researchers their work has been continued into the contemporary scene and has involved studies of varying business developments in Northamptonshire and other parts of the country. These pages seek to present the evolving portrait of one of Northamptonshire's old-established families. They follow a line of hardy husbandmen through six hundred years of honourable life and tiol within th ecounty see them into prosperity and prom8inence and look forward in confidence to the family pride commendable living and responsible effort of Mackaness generations yet to come." - Introduction. Published for private circulation. xix 3 232 pp. Index bibliography list of illustrations family tree diagrams maps. Numerous black and white reproductions of archival photos. Prior owner's bookplate name and date upon front endpaper plus author's complimentary bookplate. Otherwise tight and unmarked with average wear to original blue cloth lettered in silver. No dust jacket presumably as issued. A sound example of this proud family history and indispensable genealogical reference. ; 8vo . A. J. Mackaness Limited hardcover
